Andrée Tainsy

Andrée Tainsy

1911-04-26 Etterbeek, Belgium 51 Credits

Biography

Andrée Micheline Ghislaine Tainsy (26 April 1911 – 19 December 2004) was a Belgian actress. She worked with several notable actors like Philippe Noiret, Jean Louis Trintignant, Charlotte Rampling and famous directors like Claude Chabrol, Costas Gavras and François Ozon. Tainsy began her career with theater plays and her first film debut was in 1945, followed by over 80 different cinema and TV works as co-star. She worked until the day of her death. She was born in Etterbeek, Belgium. Andrée Ta...

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Kings & Queen

Kings & Queen

2004

as La grand-mère

7.0
Acting

Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her ag...

Red Sunset

Red Sunset

2004

as Princesse Czerry

5.0
Acting

Michel, was born in Latin America, "on the other side of the world", as the script emphasizes, of a French father he hardly knew at all. He goes to Pa...

Code Unknown

Code Unknown

2000

as Mrs. Becker

6.7
Acting

A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France...

Under the Sand

Under the Sand

2000

as Suzanne

6.7
Acting

When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.

Love, etc.

Love, etc.

1996

as Mireille

5.6
Acting

A triangle: love, obsession, and choice. Pierre, a ladies' man who has little cash and no fixed residence, describes his best friend Benoît as the wor...

The Phantom Heart

The Phantom Heart

1996

as The old lady

5.9
Acting

Philippe is a middle-aged painter, he lives with Annie : they have two kids. Just after they split up, Philippe meets Justine. He starts thinking abou...

Bouvard et Pécuchet

Bouvard et Pécuchet

1990

as Germaine

4.2
Acting

Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a constantly awkward way.

Simone

1985

as La grand mère

0.8
Acting

The love affair involving the beautiful Simone and the younger Françoise, coming from a frustrated suicide attempt.

Cop au Vin

Cop au Vin

1985

as Marthe

6.2
Acting

Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.

Boulevard des assassins

Boulevard des assassins

1982

as Mrs. Graveline

5.8
Acting

After a messy divorce, a struggling writer takes a holiday on the French Riviera, where he decides to investigate a series of mysterious incidents.

Mathieu Gaston peluche

Mathieu Gaston peluche

1980

as Propriétaire du cheval

Acting
Twice a Woman

Twice a Woman

1979

4.1
Acting

When a divorced museum director takes a young girl as a lover things quickly become more complicated when her ex-husband also engages in a relationshi...

Adieu voyages lents

1978

as La mère

Acting
A. Constant

A. Constant

1977

as Jeanne

Acting

Two sisters, Camille and Madeleine, make up the story of a woman: Alice Constant, the servant of their grandfather who committed suicide at the age of...

Gloria

Gloria

1977

as Estelle

5.3
Acting

Two ten-year-old children, Gloria and Jacques, meet at the former's birthday party. It is love at first sight and they vow eternal love. Unfortunately...

Spoiled Children

Spoiled Children

1977

as La locataire âgée

6.3
Acting

Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for...

Solemn Communion

Solemn Communion

1977

as Charlotte Fourcignie

4.5
Acting

In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families fro...

Love and Death

Love and Death

1975

as Woman (uncredited)

7.5
Acting

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

Let Joy Reign Supreme

Let Joy Reign Supreme

1975

as Nun

6.5
Acting

A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

Le tour d'écrou

Le tour d'écrou

1974

as Mme Grose

7.0
Acting

A new governess arrives at a country house to take care of two seemingly angelic young children. But she begins to suspect that the house is haunted, ...

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

1974

as Madeleine Fourmet

6.9
Acting

Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard kille...

A Slightly Pregnant Man

A Slightly Pregnant Man

1973

as Clarisse de Saint-Clair

5.7
Acting

Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the doctor and...

Handsome Face

Handsome Face

1972

Acting

Pierrette, an active labor activist, marries Mario. He had little sympathy for his wife's political activities. Nevertheless, he takes part in a strik...

Man with the Transplanted Brain

Man with the Transplanted Brain

1972

6.0
Acting

Professor Marcilly is a famed brain specialist who, following in-depth and extended research work, is now able to perform brain transplant surgery. On...

Le sagouin

Le sagouin

1972

as 'Fraulein'

Acting

In the 1930s, in a village in Gironde, Guillou, a young boy in need of affection, nicknamed the Sagouin, unhappy and in need of affection, leads a lif...

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

1972

as The Grandmother

6.1
Acting

Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two broth...

Le Prussien

Le Prussien

1971

as Yvonne

Acting

A German prisoner of wars stays in France after the armistice with the woman he loves.

The Strangler

The Strangler

1971

as Jeanne, the owner of the bar restaurant

6.2
Acting

Émile targets women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple victims fall to his suffocating white scarf, an inspector resorts to un...

Too Small My Friend

Too Small My Friend

1971

as Mme Herbin

6.0
Acting

Ticky Edriss, a dwarf, develops a scheme to avenge him on society and extort a bank.

Z

Z

1969

as Nick's Mother

7.8
Acting

Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor smells a cover-up, witnesses get targeted. ...

Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler

1967

as Julie Tesman

Acting

Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control th...

The Mad Dog

The Mad Dog

1966

2.5
Acting

Claude Brasseur plays a villain on the run from both the police and the mob. Good atmosphere in the Paris by Night, including deserted factory, Les Ha...

The Devil's Tricks

The Devil's Tricks

1966

as La mère de Ginette

5.5
Acting

Ginette Chaluzac, who has left Central France for Paris, now works as a seamstress in a modest workshop in the Marais district. Her life is quiet and ...

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

1965

as Germaine, Léon's housekeeper (segment "Les Bons Vivants") (uncredited)

5.7
Acting

The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The sec...

Fantomas

Fantomas

1964

as Habilleuse

6.8
Acting

Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusio...

Diary of a Chambermaid

Diary of a Chambermaid

1964

as La paysanne

7.1
Acting

Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job a...

Assassin's Check

Assassin's Check

1962

as La marchande de journaux

Acting

In this French murder mystery, a young journalist goes from a bad situation to much worse. He has been having problems in his relationship with his gi...

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

1959

as Club Hula-Hoop Manager (uncredited)

7.0
Acting

Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has re...

End of Desire

End of Desire

1958

as Ludivine - la servante

5.6
Acting

Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Ju...

Demoniac

Demoniac

1957

as Business card seller

6.0
Acting

Gervais escapes from a German concentration camp and assumes the identity of a recently deceased fellow prisoner. Knowing that the dead man has been c...

Les Lumières du soir

Les Lumières du soir

1956

as Job seeker

Acting

A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret.

Mannequins of Paris

Mannequins of Paris

1956

Acting

Véronique Lanier runs one of the most highly rated haute couture houses in Paris. Her first partner is her husband Pierre, who has left aside a promis...

Stain on the Snow

Stain on the Snow

1954

as (uncredited)

6.1
Acting

La neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute, Frank (...

Holiday for Henrietta

Holiday for Henrietta

1952

as (uncredited)

7.0
Acting

Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with...

Matrimonial Agency

Matrimonial Agency

1952

as (uncredited)

5.1
Acting

Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.

My Wife Is Formidable

My Wife Is Formidable

1951

as la femme de ménage

3.6
Acting

Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not res...

Julie de Carneilhan

Julie de Carneilhan

1950

as Madame Sabrier

Acting

A penniless aristocrat is fooled by her ex-husband, a crook.

No More Vacation for the Good Lord

No More Vacation for the Good Lord

1950

Acting

Montmartre in the summertime. A group of street urchins idles outside while the other kids of the neighborhood are away on holiday.To keep the gang bu...

The Sinners

The Sinners

1949

as Kitchen girl

6.1
Acting

Au Royaume des Cieux takes place in in a dreadful girls' reformatory. A couple of lovers will try to escape from this living hell.

Mission in Tangier

Mission in Tangier

1949

as Cabaret sweeper

5.7
Acting

During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London.

Fantomas Against Fantomas

Fantomas Against Fantomas

1949

as (uncredited)

6.9
Acting

Everyone in Paris thinks Fantomas is dead. A wave of extortion, blackmail and murder all point to the master criminal. Inspector Juve and his reporter...